Senate Panel's Leaders Criticize
Microsoft Peace Plan in Hearing

WASHINGTON -- Senate Judiciary Committee leaders blasted the proposed Microsoft Corp. antitrust settlement as poorly drafted and so filled with loopholes that it may be unenforceable.

Chairman Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) said he favors a settlement in the landmark case but fears that the one agreed to by the government last month could lead to more litigation. Its terms "are either confusingly vague, subject to manipulation, or...